Metro-Land (1973) quotes

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View Quote He would have liked to say goodbye,Shake hands with many friends.In Highgate now his finger-bonesStick through his finger-ends.You, God, who treat him thus and thus,Say, "Save his soul and pray."You ask me to believe You andI only see decay.

View Quote History must not be written with bias, and both sides must be given, even if there is only one side.

View Quote Hymn tunes are the nearest we've got to English folk music.[citation needed]

View Quote Hymns are the poetry of the people.

View Quote I am a young executive. No cuffs than mine are cleaner;I have a Slimline brief-case and I use the firm's Cortina.

View Quote I ought to warn you that my verse is of no interest to people who can think.

View Quote In an interview for the television do****entary Time With Betjeman (February 1983), having been asked whether he had any regrets.

View Quote In the licorice fields at PontefractMy love and I did meetAnd many a burdened licorice bushWas blooming round our feet;Red hair she had and golden skin,Her sulky lips were shaped for sin,Her sturdy legs were flannel-slack'dThe strongest legs in Pontefract.

View Quote It was through looking at churches that I came to believe in the reason churches were built.

View Quote It's strange that those we miss the mostAre those we take for granted.

View Quote Miss J. Hunter Dunn, Miss J. Hunter Dunn,Furnish'd and burnish'd by Aldershot sun,What strenuous singles we played after tea,We in the tournament — you against me!

View Quote No hope. And the X-ray photographs under his armConfirm the message. His wife stands timidly by.The opposite brick-built house looks lofty and calm,Its chimneys steady against the mackerel sky.

View Quote Oh shall I see the Thames again?The prow-promoted gems again,As beefy ATSWithout their hatsCome shooting through the bridge?And "cheerioh" and "cheeri-bye"Across the waste of waters die,And low the mists of evening lieAnd lightly skims the midge.

View Quote One mark of good verse is surprise.

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